The most important ‘Parisian’ week of international contemporary art will soon open, led for the third year by Clément Delépine.
In perfect harmony with its Basel, Hong Kong, and Miami Sisters, the latest fair will open under the banner of an important partnership with Miu Miu, the Italian haute couture brand.
Miuccia Prada, owner of Miu Miu and avid art collector, will, be the fair’s public programme’s official partner, expanding not only into the spaces of the renovated Grand Palais, held here for the first time this year from October 18-20, 2024 (previews held on 16 & 17 October) but also throughout the city. It will be a tight schedule of exhibitions, events, and widespread appointments that will also reflect the relative proposals of the galleries represented at the fair, an increasingly significant and productive dialogue between the works exhibited at the stands and the French capital’s major exhibitions, from Surrealism to Arte Povera.
From October 16 to 20, the famous and iconic fashion brand will host a special project, ‘Tales & Tellers,’ at the Palais d’Iéna. The project will feature art film commissions and Women’s tales created by the designer and the brand’s collaborations with artists and filmmakers for some of the most important international fashion shows since 2011.
Created by artist Goshka Macuga and the director of the MACBA in Barcelona, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and with contributions from Meriem Bennani, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Shuang Li, Geumhyung Jeong, Sophia Al-Maria, Cécile B. Evans, Goshka Macuga, Tales & Tellers will finally offer a space for storytelling from the perspective of women, mixing individuality and multitude, personal history and universal events, with performances, screenings, and conversations…
Enhanced by its new name and embellished by its new venue at the Grand Palais, Art Basel Paris expands and succeeds with its enchantment in stepping out of the corridors and stands, reinforcing its commitment and involvement in the city’s cultural ecosystem through Conversations and an ambitious and meticulous ‘public programme’ in partnership with the main institutions of the ville lumière. The Conversations programme will be held at the Petit Palais, directly opposite the Grand Palais, again under the curatorship of Pierre-Alexandre Matéos and Charles Teyssou.
From October 12 to 20, 2024, an installation by American-French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle can be admired at the square of the Institut de France (temple of science and the arts). The multifaceted artist beloved throughout the world for her colourful and monumental creations, Niki de Saint-Phalle, has created a sparkling Snake Tree covered with fragments of mirrors for Art Basel Paris.
The iconic – par excellence – Gagosian Gallery has scheduled an exhibition/event of selected works by American artist James Turrell for October 14. Turrell is known to the general public for his work exploring the relationship between light and space and its amplification.
As part of the public programming of Art Basel Paris, the installation of Carsten Höller’s new sculpture at Place Vendôme, Giant Triple Mushroom (2024), can be viewed from October 15 to November 24, 2024. This large-scale sculpture combines enlarged cross-sections of three different species of wild mushrooms into a single form. Standing three metres tall, the work features the bright red cap of the Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric), the characteristic net-like ‘skirt’ of the Phallus indusiatus (long-netted stinkhorn) and the grooved gills of the Tricholoma colossus (dove-coloured tricholoma). While the last two species are edible, the Amanita muscaria is toxic and, in smaller doses, hallucinogenic. The artist’s interest in this mushroom lies in its cultural, historical, religious, and spiritual importance through its psychoactive properties and sensory characteristics.
As autumn colours change all around us, so does Paris. We are preparing for the grand opening of Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais, and we will also celebrate and revisit the iconic Italian Arte Povera movement of the late ’60s and early ’70s. First in line to join in the homage to this movement is the Tornabuoni Art Gallery, dedicating an exhibition of selected works to the movement’s leading protagonists, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, to name a few.
On October 14, Galleria Continua will open its new venue in the Marinon Saint-Honoré district to the general public as part of Paris Art Week.
In addition to participating in the fair, the gallery will also open the new space with an exhibition featuring Adel Abdessemed (Constantina, Algeria, 1951) and Giorgio Morandi (Bologna, 1890 – 1964) in a ‘trans-historical’ dialogue: Guerre et Paix is the title of the exhibition, with a selection of works ‘illustrating their connections and contrasting perspectives’.
Lots of side events and …
